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The variations on “Keep Calm and Carry On” got worn out and became repetitive and tedious some time back. (My own personal flavor is “Keep Calm and Pet a Kitty.”) But the message in the words taken from the original British wartime poster, now removed from the cultural context that may have made it relevant, don’t resonate with me Read more about Keep Calm and…[…]

Asked by one student how he could become President someday, Obama issued a warning about Facebook. “I want everybody here to be careful about what you post on Facebook (), because in the YouTube () age whatever you do, it will be pulled up again l…

Smart Add First, we have a new “Add Task” field that’s always on screen (you can still jump to it with the keyboard shortcut t). This field is a little bit special: it supports entering all your task’s properties in one line, with our new Smart Ad…

via mashable.com This is utterly perfect. Almost exactly the nuanced distinctions I would articulate if I’d put enough thought into it. My social skills are largely intact, so I’m clearly a geek, at least in reference to the web, about which I adm…

In the circle of life there are many players and while there’s no shortage of people, there are unfortunately thousands of endangered animals and plants. Biologists have been looking for ways to determine the most important species based on the nu…

Not sure if I’ve ever talked about this here, but I just happened across this article about the Nashville Number System and wanted to point out how cool it is to watch session players use this. As the article points out: So what’s so great about the Nashville Number System? Just realize that all of Read more about How cool is the Nashville Number System?[…]

It was a little bit of a shock to me to learn yesterday that Ticketmaster has decided to close Nashville-based Echo, which is a company I’ve danced close to for some time but never danced with, if you know what I mean. I have friends that work there, and have followed their trajectory for some Read more about Bad news for Nashville music in pairs yesterday[…]

I hadn’t heard about the Depeche Mode iTunes Pass fiasco: Just recently, Apple introduced its iTunes Pass program with Depeche Mode, only to find the proposition dismantled by the internet itself. The Pass builds extras around a formal album release date, and packages everything into a multi-week program. But all of that is predicated on Read more about Depeche Mode, iTunes, and the state of the music industry,[…]